The final agenda is now available for the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing, to be held March 6-8 in London and virtually. The National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of ...

As South Africa grapples with the implications of genome editing, the ethical debate intensifies. What does the future hold ...

5 latest biotechnology breakthroughs, from genome sequencing to microbiome manipulation, revolutionizing medicine, ...

Two new companion reports from a World Health Organization expert panel provide recommendations to the scientific community on the use of human genome editing. The panel’s work was informed by a 2020 ...

The promise of genome editing to help understand human diseases and create new therapies is vast, but technological limitations have limited advancement of the field.

In the past two years, a spate of technological advances and promising results in mice have been laying the groundwork for ...

At a major genome-editing summit, spotlight turns to the value of human life Committee calls for charter on technologies like CRISPR that protects human dignity ...

A good portion of human DNA is what scientists refer to as "junk" -- stuff left over from ancient viruses and such. But maybe ...

For decades, large stretches of human DNA were dismissed as "junk" and considered to serve no real purpose. In a new study ...

NIH researchers have used gene editing to correct a HEXA gene mutation linked to late-onset Tay-Sachs disease (LOTS). In cell ...